Finnegan’s Wake

A Wake is also defined as a consequence and “for every action there is a consequence”

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce is about characters centered around the Earwicker family, composed of the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Issy. Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a dream narrative, follows his wife’s attempts to exonerate him with a letter, Critic Oliver Gogarty called it “the most colossal leg pull in literature.” So,  it has been said “if it was written as a joke, it was one of the most complex, thoughtful, literary jokes ever created”

Here are some examples of “for every action there is a consequence”. All of these houses went up for sale within a five hundred metre radius by the same Estate Agent. In first one put up for sale in May 2010 it was in such bad order that when refurbished the side wall fell down and caused structural problems to the house right bedside it with the threat of litigation from the neighbour

The next house went on the market April 2011 it had been occupied by a journalist with a number of failed publications behind him and his wife however when they moved out The auctioneer surveyed the house as if repossession  after a tenant had left The accredited new owner a retired company secretary in his late 70’s was purported to have paid €2.4m then refurbished  the house spending at least another €1m on it For example the  new window system put in on the lower floor at the back of the house appears to have cost €120,000 alone One aspect of the application has at this point been refused by The Planning Board The house next door which was used by the builders during the refurbishment as a storage unit, they would refer to it as “the other house”  That “other house” now has a planning application on it and the name of that appellant has the same name as a planning applicant for a house on a nearby road in 2007, which is now for sale by the same auctioneer

The third house went on the market May 2012 and the attributed vendors in this sale were in fact the long term tenants The person accredited with acquiring the property a Manager with one of the banks in the IFSC and said they bought it as an investment put in a planning application December 2012 which was subsequently withdrawn May 2013 for no reason The council in April 2013 had asked for further details with the application whether they were furnished or were the reason for the removal only time will tell

Nevertheless, the fourth property to be put on the market May 2013  by the same auctioneer caps it all as this entire particular property is owned by a company and the only way a property like this can be sold in part or in it’s entirety  is to dissolve the company however the business in question that owns this property is still trading However as of 27^th May 2013 this particular property has a sale agreed sign up, in just over three weeks unusual in the current economic climate.